Renaissance Figure manufacturers in 28mm/25mm

This Madaxeman.com's directory of suppliers of 28mm/25mm Renaissance Figures.

If you are looking for 25mm or 28mm ECW, TYW, Polish, Ottoman, Samurai (with guns), Dutch, Restoration British, Swedish, Tatar or French Wars of Religion wargames figures, you've probably come to the right place. This page has details of the ranges carried by ALL the 25mm and 28mm Renaissance suppliers I can find. For each supplier there is a listing of the categories of figures they have (which gets messy in this era, as one man's TYW infantry are another man's ECW, but perhaps then a third totally theoretical man might even argue tha they are actually quite different...). It also has some detail on how each company packages their figures (singles, packs of 8 etc), details on how you can order from them, and a link to their site. The information on this site was hopefully correct when I created it, and I do try to keep it updated but please check shipping rates and quantities yourself when ordering. if you see anything that needs changing, please tell me via the email link on this page

You can also rate any of the manufacturers - please do vote on those you have figures for as this helps other gamers decide what to buy.

I have deliberately omitted listings for the "Late Medieval" and lots of the "Generic Eastern Islamic/Horse Nomad" armies as otherwise this listing would start to become an "ancient Islamic horsemen" listing and go on for ages.

Whilst in the real world people are all different heights, weights and shapes - and in the Renaissance this natural variety probably was even more pronounced - in the world of 25mm & 28mm figures there is some generally recognised height differences which make mixing figures in the same unit sometimes a bit difficult. I have therefore tried to make a note of what size the manufacturers themselves describe their figures as being, and also drawn information from postings on TMP and other sites to give a subjective view on scale comparison. Whether this is accurate or not is debatable, so do your own research too - but it's a start

The 28mm/25mm Renaissance Figure Manufacturers Listings

Bicorne make an English Civil War 1642~1651 range, and a Connisseur Early Italian Wars range too

Bicorne Miniatures was established in the late 1980s and in November 1999 the business was taken over by Andrew Barrett, restarting production of some of the figure ranges. The website says that the ECW figures are compatible with Renegade English and Redoubt ranges, and they market themselves as 25mm. The business was then taken over by a new set of people in 2014, meaning the production of the ranges has re-started and some new figures are on sale for the first time in many years, including some new packs in montero and monmouth caps, specifically for the Royalist Oxford Army. This has also led to a revamp of the website, which is modern and clean-looking with good photos of most of the ranges.

As well as generic troops for both Parliamentarian and Royalists they have Irish, Covenanting Scots, Covenanters, Personalities/Generals and some civilians - plus a range of wagons. The Italian Wars range is relatively small in number, and covers Swiss, Italian, Spanish, Landsnecht and French

They also sell separate heads for those that want more variety of hats in their armies, and GMB flags for those who want, erm, flags

The Italian Wars figures are sold as singles, the ECW ones in packs of 8

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Eureka of Australia make a number of interesting ranges for the period

The website has pictures of almost all of the figures in the bare metal

Their ranges are listed as 28mm and include Colonian Portuguese and South American Tupi, Aztecs, Conquistadores, ECW (which are all Scots), Italian Wars Gendarmes (only), Pirates, North Anerican Indians and Samurai.

The Australian site sells figures as singles

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Dixon are a classic UK manufacturer witha long history, founded in 1976 and still owned by the founder Trevor Dixon.

The website has not really enough pictures of the figures, but they are well regarded, cleanly cast and cute

They have an ECW range, as well as Samurai, Pirates, Marlburians (at the back end of this period maybe), Louis XIV and League of Augsburg, Ottomans, Plains Wars Indians who may well also work in this era and Border Reiver Scots

The ranges sell in singles generally. Some of the sizing is a touch variable between ranges, and the ECW range are definately on the short side compared to others based on ths I have. Very clean and straightforward figures

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Essex have a vast range of figures in 15mm and 25mm, although their dominance in 15mm means the 25mm ranges are sometimes overlooked. As with the 15mm ranges their figures are always to a good standard, take paint nicely but are sometimes accused of lacking a little in personality and animation. They are marketed as 25mm, and have a high degree of consistency and compatibility throughout the entire range.

In their Renaissance ranges they have separate ranges for Late Medieval / Early Renaissance (Swiss, Landsknehcts, Gendarmes), ECW, 17th Century (iwhich is actually League of Augsberg), 1665-1700 European (a small range of TYW to add to the ECW) Cossacks, Early TYW Dutch, 1600-1640 Europeans (which look to be exactly the same as the 1665-1700 ranges by the photos on their website), Mameluks, Ottomans, Peersians, Poles, Russians, Spanish (early, so sword and buckler era), Tatars.

They also have a Coonial range of Mahdists and Sudanese which would suit these armies in the Renaissance too

Essex sells 25mm figures as singles

The brand-new and updated Essex website has a full listing of figures, with a very complete set of pictures of all the figures, usually painted but some in bare
metal.

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Eagle Figures (in the UK) was relaunched by Stewart Black and Alan Mercer, succeeding the Eagle Miniatures which first started trading in the 80's. The existing figures and ranges are progressively being brought up to date, including a 28mm English Civil War range. The business is very much run as a part-time garage business, which the owners freely admit means that from time to time orders might not be processed as quickly as they might like. They exhibit as some UK shows and mail to customers across the globe.

They currently have a 10-figure ECW infantry range in 28mm, as well as Mughals

The ranges sell as singles, and there are pictures of all the figures on the website

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A venerable range of 25mm figures now owned and produced by Caliver Books in Nottingham. Minifigs own ranges in the Renaissance include ECW, TYW, an earlier "Renaissance" range covering the French Italian Wars (with Swiss and Landsknechts), Poles, Ottomans

Minifigs also sell the Matchlock Miniatures ranges, which are being gradually brought back into production and currently consists of a 28mm ECW offering for this era and scale.

Minifigs have been around since before I was born (-ish) and some of the castings are starting to show their age. The lack of raised, dry-brushable/inkable detail on many of the figures looks very, very dated. There are almost no pictures of these ranges on their site

Supplied in singles

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UK-based Empress Miniatures have a new English Civil War range of 28mm figures, sculpted by Tony Boustead. The range has been commissioned/sponsored by one of their customers and is designed based on recent research on costumes and equipment. Initially covering troops from around 1630 to 1644 Empress have plans to eventually move into 1645 and beyond, thus covering later period types such as the New Model Army.

The figures have deliberately been designed to have clothing that has a significantly earlier style to it than many ECW ranges, with the commonest head wear being knitted wool Monmouths and English bonnets giving both armies a very civilian look suitablel for the early ECW

The first releases are infantry, both pike and musket, plus the first artillery piece, a Saker. These releases will be immediately followed by many others including another Saker and crew as well as lots and lots of cavalry. In the middle of all this will be personality groups. The site has pictures of the troops in bare metal

They also have a 28mm range of Abyssinyans for the war against Italy, which are way out of period but may do for some late Renaissance armies anywaySupplied in singles and unit packs

Supplied in singles and unit packs

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Foundry Miniatures are for many people The Daddy of 28mm wargaming figures, having started making miniatures in 1979 and ending up with a range of over 25,000 different figures across loads of periods. They also have the Foundry Miniatures / Kevin Dallimore painting system with over 350 different colours and shades of paint.

Front Rank Figurines design and manufacture figurines in 28mm and 40mm. Designed by Alec Brown, and designed and manufactured in Britain they have a Late C17 range for this period

The large Renaissance range covers 1685-1700 which are suitable for the Monmouth Rebellion 1685, The Irish Wars 1689 to 1691 & The War of the Grand Alliance 1689 to 1697, with some figures cast with a range of different heads and hats for extra variety.

They also have a range of personalities, and the site has pictures of the troops in bare metal and many nicely painted examples too

Front Rank offer Special Deal Packs and Battalion Packs, and have a discount scheme too - but they also sell figures as singles.

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Irregular Miniatures make figures in a range of scales, all designed by Ian Kay. This UK company are based in York and attend a number of shows throughout the UK each year. Their Renaissance range is marketed as being 28mm. The figures can look a little dated when set against some more modern manufacturers

Outpost are a Scottish manufacturer with an eclectic mix of ranges and scales - their philosophy has been to try and produce the ranges that the 'big boys' ignore. Outpost market their figures as 28mm

Renaissance ranges are from the Americas with armies for the Aztecs, Conquistadors, Tlaxcaltecs, Tarascans, Huaxtec, Mayans, Inca. They also have a remodelled Highwayman range which might provide some interesting tricorne-hat-wearing figures too.

The site has some photos of painted figures.

They sell figures in packs of 8, and also do unit pack deals for larger groups and units.

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As well as the Artizan ranges produced under license, North Star have their own range under the banner Sixteen Seventy-Two, the year Louis invaded the Dutch Republic. The range was originally part of Copplestone Castings, and it was titled Glory of the Sun - the first 26 packs were designed by Mark Copplestone.

The range is substantial covering foote, horse, gunnes and personalities such as Monmouth and Churchill

The site has photos of unpainted figures for the whole range, and promotes them as 28mm - they come with mixed heads.

They sell figures in packs of 6, and also do some scenery/field fortifications.

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Ranges exist for ECW, Jacobite Rebellion, Pirates, Persians, Marlborough, Wars of Religion 1550-1600 featuring Landsknechts amongst many others, Poles, Muscovites, Cossacks, Ottomans, Hungarians, Croats, ECW Scots, some North American Indians, some Indian Mutiny Colonials that may work in period too.

The US site has photos of unpainted figures which are sold in packs of 30 or so - many variations per pack usually - and they offer army deals as well. Old Glory UK has more pictures of painted miniatures too but still sells in the packs of 30

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Pro Gloria figures were originally manufactured by a German designer - the range covers 28mm C16 figures, especially Landsnechts.

in 2014 the range was bought by Warlord Games (see press release) although the owner will stay involved to keep the range growing. As well as Landsnechts, but they have some nice civilians (even a dancing bear!) and personalities too

They sell in packs of 8 foote and have unit deals as well. The Warlord Games site now has photos of the figures very nicely painted. As they are sculpted by someone else to Warlords main C17 ranges they will keep their own listing here.

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Brother Vinnie's figures are sold both by Brother Vinnie himself in Hamburg, Germany and also by Siberia Miniatures who are, well, from Siberia! Amongst other less historical ranges Brother Vinnie's sell a range of castings which covers the Landsnecht part of the Early Renaissance, with one of the few left-handed arquebusiers out there included in it.

The site is in English, and has nicely painted pictures of each of the 15 or so figures in the range - they are promoted as being 28mm

They are 5 Euro's a piece and can be supplied painted as well. The site sells in low enough volumes not to warrant a cart, but does take Paypal. Impressive looking models too...

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The Perry Twins are two of the most renowned and prolific sculptors for the miniature wargaming hobby. They have worked for Games Workshop since 1978, sort of founded Foundry and did many of their early ranges and now have their own company selling metal castings and also branching out into plastics

In the Renaissance they have metal ranges for Samurai, Korea, European Armies 1450-1500 (which match the plastics, and will squeak into the early part of the period) ECW Royalist or Parlimentry which also suit other European nations and early American settlers - the musketeers are generally wearing broad-brimmed hats, monteros, monmouth caps and 'pound' hats so some are also definately Scots.

There are two sets of multipose plastics - WR20 Plastic 'Mercenaries', European Infantry 1450-1500 which have been used for Early Swiss by many people, and WR 40 Mounted Men at Arms 1450-1500 which seem to come with enough armour to have a reasonable stab at being Early Gendarmes or European horse.

The plastics are around 40 foot or 12 horse per pack, with the metals coming in packs of 6. They also sell accessories, which most notably include pikes, or separate heads to turn the plastic infantry into Swiss.

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UK-based Redoubt cover a good number of Renaissance sub-periods with their 25/28mm (their own description..) figures, and they do have a large range of interesting extras and unusual figures suitable for making up a baggage diorama too.

The core is of course the ECW, where they have a large range covering both teams and the Scots too, some which come with separate heads in a deliberate attempt to make them morph over to the TYW as well. Some of the Highlanders are hidden in the Specials section of the listings. They also have an Early Italian Wars range, a Renaissance range) including the C15/6 European armies built around a core of Landsnechts and Swiss, Turks, Moors, Irish, Elizabethan/Henrician English and some Hungarian/Eastern opponents for the Turks), The Three Musketeers, Pirates, French and Indian wars ranges which might work in this period too, Sudanese and Boxer Rebellions (both technically out of this period, but may have useful figures in them)

They sell as singles, but also offer Regimental deals

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Reiver Castings are sold by Under the Bed Enterprises and made at their UK factory - they can be seen on their trade stand at shows too.

They have a number of ranges in and around the Renaissance period, starting with Anglo-Scots Wars (1513-50), Thirty Year's War (1618-48) an Late C17/Early C18 Wars range with Jacobites, Prussians and German States, British, Williamite Dutch, Covenanters, Austrians, Covenanters, Charles II, Swedes, Russians and Louis XIV French - which includes personality figures, casualties and even fortifications. They also sell (I think) the Beneath the Lilly Banners ranges - the website isn't exactly clear on whether Under The Bed sell both Reiver and the LoA ranges, or of they actually are the same figures with different branding - or just some Riever figures packaged for the rules.

The website is rather confusing - much easier to download the PDF catalogue of 28mm figures - which seems to say that the figures are sold in unit packs of 4 mounted or 10 foot, all for GBP10 each pack. The site has no online e-commerce shopping system, so you probably have to email them an order and pay by Paypal, as they do not appear to take credit cards.

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As of December 2014 Renegade have re-opened for business after a hiatus due to the owners other commitments.

Based in the west of England, Renegade Miniatures have an ECW range for both sides and the Covenanters too

Sold in blister packs or in "Regimental Deals", the figures are sold as 28mm, and the ranges are divided into Pike, Shotte, Cavalry Artillery and Covenanters. The website has some pictures of painted figures, and photos of almost all of the ranges in unpainted versions

The figures are sold in blisters of 8 foote or 4 horse at GBP 12 a pack. They also occasionally have multipack deals too. The website is a proper e-commerce one with credit cards and paypal payment.

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The Assault Group, or TAG as they are known colloquially describe themselves as being in the business of making niche market miniatures, and over the last few years these niches have been almost exclusively in the Renaissance period - and even within the period they are aiming for some of the less popular figures. This means that - unusually - they have steered clear of English Civil War, and don't have mid-period Landsknechts either.

The website is great - pictures of all of the figures in unpainted form gives a clear view of the castings. They are regarded as being a little large even when set against other 28mm figures, and sell in packs of 4 foote or 3 mounted, with unit packs as well.

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Warlord Games are one of the pioneers of plastic 28mm figures, and have developed a very handy core range of plastic multipose ECW/TYW foote and horse which has gradually been supplemented by metal figures and additional components that add variety and flesh out the range to include other nationalities.

They have also extended their own offering by buying the Pro Gloria C16 Landsnecht range, and the Arsenal Miniatures 28mm ‘Revenge of Christendom’ range of figures (see below).

The basic Warlord Renaissance plastic range is based on only 5 or so different sprues, which from memory are a Pike and Shotte sprue with 5 pikeman bodies (2 standing, 3 thrusting) and 8 musketeers (4 standing, 4 advancing/running), a single running figure with firelock and two sets of arms, a sprue with three commanders/drummers on foote, a sprue of riders (with a range of hats and helmets) and a sprue of horses. This means the Royalist and Parliamentarian cavalry sets are exactly the same except for different flags, and the Scots and also the TYW infantry are the basic sprues with a couple of metal officers and some extra bonnets or helmets added into the box!

The Highlanders for the Scots are a range of all metal figures, and there are now plenty of other personality sets and low-volume specialist sets as well as some resin models for things like artillery gunnes - recently they have added some Polish Hussars to the range too.

In 2013 Warlord purchased the rights to an "almost in production" range from Arsenal Miniatures, a 28mm ‘Revenge of Christendom’ range of figures sculpted by Paul Hicks. They cover both sides at war Malta during the great siege of 1565, and will be useful for other similar era armies. They are due out fairly soon (late 2014)

The website is very clear as to what is in each box, and is very professional. The Batallia box sets are especially good value.

The plastic figures are widely available through many online and bricks and mortar retailers as well as on eBay and Warlord Games' own site

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Musketeer Miiatures are now known as Footsore Miniatures, and are a UK-based 28mm manufacturer with a US manufacturing base as well, and 2 ranges which just about sneak into the back end of the Renaissance era, Great Northern War Swedes and Russians.

Covering the Armies of Peter the Great and Charles XII of Sweden during the Great Northern War 1700-1721

The figures weree sold in packs of 4 foote or 3 mounted, as well as unit deals. They are getting up to speed in re-reeleasing these ranges, so eventually will have pictures showing painted or unpainted versions of the figures. The website has the almost-standard Paypal-based cart and ordering system.

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The "other" pioneer of plastic figure manufacturing, Wargames Factory no longer exists as a separate entity having been bought out by Warlord Games after a rather troubled history. For the Renaissance era their ranges include Samurai (now repackaged for the Test of Honour game under the Warlord games banner) and a generic War of Spanish Succession range.

The WSS range is now listed by Warlord as "Marlborough's Wars" army pack, or Wars of the Grand Alliance/Wars of the Sun King infantry and cavalry ranges. There is actually only one box/set of sprues of Infantry and one of Cavalry and a box of Artillery that as usual for Warlord come woth different flags in each range. The infantry box has 24 figures of which most are single piece bodies including arms that only require a head to be attached, with another sprue which can be built using a set of legs and four unique torsos including two officer sashes, one regular trooper, and one reversed chest strap to build a drummer. The poses of the single-piece figures are very static marching poses.

The mounted pack has 12 horses, 12 sets of legs for the riders and claims over 50-torsos (including armored torsos for cuirassiers) and over 60-heads (including tri-corn, helmeted, grenadier and dragoon headwear), plus arms with pistols, muskets/carbines and/or swords.

Their artillwer for thw WSS range is also plastic with 8 crewman and 2 senior officers on horseback, bases, cannonballs, powder barrels, water buckets and more - the cannon can be assembled using either the 12 pounder barrel or smaller 8 pounder.

The Samurai are from the Warring States or Sengoku period of Japanese history in the 16th Century. Originally there were 4 sets in this range - Samurai came with 5 sprues of 5 Samurai with weapons and accessories for a total of 25 figures, a pack of 25 Ashigaru with Spears, another with 25 Ashigaru with bows and arquebus (up to 20 arquebus soldiers and 5 bowman or 20 bowman and 5 arquebus soldiers) and a mounted pack with 12 multi-part mounted samurai and their horses armed with a mix of weapons, making up to 12 Spear men (10 yari & 2 naginata), 6 bowmen, officers, separate heads and datemono (helmet devices), 12 Sashimono (the flags worn on the back), 6 Horo (protective "cloaks" tied to the back) and Sode (shoulder armor) for all 12 riders. Repackaged for Test of Honor, the range has been extended with some meal figures too

They can be bought from Warlord and like most plastic manufacturers they are widely available on eBay and via online and bricks and mortar retailers.

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The Beneath the Lily Banners rules are highly regarded for WSS-era gaming, and the BLTB website is now home to an impressive range of WSS-era figures suitable for many of the armies of this conflict - and the Jacobite wars - under the Warfare Miniatures brand.

These 28mm metal miniatures have almost 100 different packs of foote, mounted and artillery, including personality figures and accessories, with a continuing programme of new releases adding to the breadth of the range all the time.

The website has pictures of all of the models , almost all of which are painted. They also sell flags for the main protagonists as well

The figures are sold in packs of 5-6 models, or in unit packs as well

Full-service e-commerce on the website.

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Lead Adventure Forum are a German-based organisation selling the bordering-on-the-surreal Militia of Bruegelburg / Landsnecht range from Ratnik Miniatures, which they manufacture under license, and which are sculpted by Igor Karpov. Slightly cartoonish, and packed with more personality than a very charismatic thing stuffed full of charisma and ideosyncratic bonkersness, the range has civiliians and Landsnecht-esque soldiery all shown in glorious technicolour on their website.

28mm metal miniatures, they are sold in packs of 2-3 figures for around 8 Euros per pack, and they do have larger bundle deals as well.

Successive waves of figures are being released and are regularly discussed on the Lead Adventure Forum

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